WillsMcFadden

When I change the way I look at life, life begins to change.

Hand-lettered by Wills
in Eyes of Change, 2023

The work

Wills draws and paints the way some people read: closely, and then again. Her pages begin in graphite — a hen drawn feather by feather, the five-petaled star of a sand dollar — and arrive, years later, at oil-pastel suns and tidal blues and a figure whose head is a single enormous eye.

Again and again, in different years, she returns to the eye — watching, weeping, rising out of dark water — and to the light it sees by: candle flames, a low sun through bare branches, a cut citrus glowing like a lantern.